The work of making things work: A review of Practices of Repair

Abstract

The exhibition Practices of Repair framed and set the tone for the four-day public programme Power Talks Johannesburg, initiated by the Goethe Institut Johannesburg and the African Centre for Cities to address and understand the power dynamics at work between cultural institutions and the African societies and contexts in which they operate. The Johannesburg conversation, focused on notions of ‘repair’ in the context of the city, its suburbs, its pathways and corridors, its physical and social infrastructure, and its spaces of cultural production.